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MS. Laud Misc. 68

Summary Catalogue no.: 1368

Gregory the Great, Moralia in Iob; France, s. xiiiex

Contents

This description is abbreviated from Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue (Oxford, 2018), pp. 272–76. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.

1. (fols. 1r–3r)
Index to the writings of Gregory the Great, Moralia,

and, less frequently, also references to Homiliae in Ezechielem and Cura pastoralis, arranged by themes with reference to the books of the Bible, from Genesis to Revelations.

Language(s): Latin
2. (fols. 4r–489v)
Gregory the Great, Moralia in Iob

With introductory epistle and preface.

Stegmüller Bibl. 2634, and suppl.
(fol. 4r)
Bede, De tabernaculo et vasis eius

(excerpt, 1.6)

On the fourfold method of interpretation of the Scriptures

Language(s): Latin
3. (fols. 490r–515v)
Index

Continuation from item 1, see above.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: -quendo protuli
(fol. 5ra)
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i (17th-cent.) + 515 + i (17th-cent.) leaves
Dimensions (leaf): c.230–43 × 165–77 mm.
Foliation: i, 1-516

Layout

Ruling in lead point, two columns of c.34–38 lines, below top line. Ruled space c.153–75 × 117–22 mm.

Hand(s)

French textualis, by several hands.

Corrections and marginalia in contemporary up to 15th-cent. hands, the latter from the Mainz Charterhouse

Decoration

1-sided border, extending towards upper and lower margin (fol. 4r).

Fleuronnée initials.

Red rubrics by the text hands.

Binding

Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Abp. Laud, 1637–1639.

Bookmarks made of pasted parchment strips; these strips are written on, in a small, heavily abbreviated French textualis cursiva of s. xiii.

History

Origin: s. xiiiex ; France (Judging by the script and decoration.)

Provenance and Acquisition

Mainz, Charterhouse St Michael: ‘Iohannes de Esschenewege’ or ‘de Loupath’, who is identified by Schreiber (144) as the Carthusian Johannes Arfelt de Eschwege, the scribe of MS. Laud Misc. 202, was meant to sell the manuscript in order to buy parchment, but held it back: see ex-libris inscription at the upper margin of fol. 1r. Identifiable as D XXI P in cat. ii.

William Laud, 1573–1645: his ex-libris inscription, dated 1638, at the lower margin of fol. 1r.

Given to the Bodleian as part of his third donation, dispatched on 28 June 1639.

Record Sources

See above. Previously described in the Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885).
Quarto Catalogue, col. 86
Quarto Catalogue, p. 545
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 59

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)

Bibliography

    Published descriptions:

    Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue, 2 vols. (Oxford, 2018), pp. 272–276

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2023-01-16: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.